Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
February 9 is the earliest day on which People's Sunday can fall, while March 15 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday of Lent. ( Malta ) St. Maroun's Day (public holiday in Lebanon )
This is a list of selected February 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit.
This page was last edited on 26 November 2019, at 13:02 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
1960 – The deadliest earthquake in Moroccan history (damaged building pictured) struck the city of Agadir, killing at least 12,000 people. 2004 – Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown following popular rebel uprising.
1838 - Birth of Margaret E. Knight, American inventor, famous as female Thomas Edison, (d. 1914) 1848 - Birth of Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (d. 1934) 1869 - Birth of Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1959) 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray
Upgrade to a faster, more secure version of a supported browser. It's free and it only takes a few moments:
Events. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.; 1825 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
February 8, 1969, was the last date for an issue of the weekly magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, [32] though it was placed on newsstands and sent to subscribers a week earlier. [33] The Post would be resurrected a year later as a semi-monthly magazine.